Transcript
- [Rodriguez]
I'm not exactly sure
how many sessions,
but the point that we moved
to a different
traumatic thought
is when I was able to
go into therapy,
talk about the first
traumatic thought,
and not feel stress or
anxiety about it.
Going into the second
traumatic event
was easier than the first
because I knew
what to expect.
After my therapy, I would
leave the office
and I would feel,
each time,
like a little weight
had been lifted
off of my shoulders.
My body just felt
different after therapy.
I didn't feel as stressed.
I didn't feel as worked up.
I didn't feel as tense.
I didn't feel as tight.
I felt just a little
bit more relaxed.
And each time I
went to therapy,
that relaxed feeling would
last longer and longer.
And, finally, I got
to the point
where I did not feel that
electric charge
run through my body at all.
Now when I sit down
and I think about
the traumatic memories,
I can look at them and not
feel as stressed,
or feel anxiety, thinking
about them now
because they have
been processed
and placed into long-term
memory where they belong.
They've been refiled.
After the many months
of therapy
that I had been through,
I could look at myself
in the mirror
and feel proud of the
work and the effort
that I put into therapy
because it paid off now,
where I just feel more
comfortable in my own skin
when I did not before.
It's not the same Roger
it was in 2001.
The old Roger,
(laugh)
he was a hot mess,
that boy.
The new me is more - a
relaxed, more calm
open to listening to
people and their views
and where they are
and not taking everything
to heart as before.
The best way I can put
it is I'm more freer
to life as it comes.
Having been in therapy,
period,
has helped me be in a
better place now.